[asterisk-dev] Shouldn't Asterisk call chdir("/") when becoming a daemon?

Wed Apr 22 18:30:22 CDT 2009

On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 10:33:44PM +0100, Chris Maciejewski wrote:

> so looks like asterisk is not calling chdir("/") anywhere, apart from
> res/res_musiconhold.c .
> AFAIK it is a recommended for all linux daemon processes to call
> chdir("/") when forking.

It originally did. But daemon(3) is now explicitly called with nochdir=1
to simplify dumping cores.

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